Good evening Earl, Thanks for the comment. I really enjoyed the context and content discussion on Saturday at the Core Developer Summit. Hoping to see a drupal_butler object in drupal 8. Are any discussions about this happening online, if so, where can I get involved and contribute? Thanks again, Everett Zufelt http://zufelt.ca Follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/ezufelt View my LinkedIn Profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/ezufelt On 2010-04-23, at 8:27 PM, Earl Miles wrote:
E.J. Zufelt wrote:
Good evening,
Thanks for this.
I took a look at user_access() but wasn't sure that it would do what I needed. I have to admit to being a newbie as far as Drupal development goes. I normally work on cor accessibility.
As far as user_access() I see that it can accept a user object, but that it also needs me to pass a permission to check. What permission would I be checking to see if the current system path can be accessed? This is why menu_get_item() seemed more appropriate. It would be nice if there was a function like menu_get_item() that accepted the user object like user_access() does. Perhaps I'll ad an issue as a feature request for d8 if this doesn't already exist in some hidden corner of d6.
Context is a major weakness in Drupal right now and there is currently a lot of discussion on what to do about that in D8. As for what you can do right now, your global $user hack is probably the only thing you can actually do. it's not elegant at all, but in a contrib module...be very very careful you don't change the $user identity once you're done (so make sure all possible failure scenarios are covered).